This week we’ve been getting a look at a whole handful of Android tablets at IFA 2011, one of the most inexpensive of which being the ViewSonic ViewPad 7e. The “e” in the name here stands for “Entry” aka “Entry-Level” meaning that it’ll certainly be ViewSonic’s least expensive tablet on the market for the time being. We got the opportunity to take a close look at this lovely white-bordered Android tablet and we’d just love to show you what it’s all about.
This week Samsung revealed several new devices at their “Unpacked” event in Berlin at IFA 2011, perhaps the most impressive of these being the Samsung Galaxy Note. This device is what Samsung will be promoting as the ultimate single device for all of your mobile needs, bridging the gap between smartphone and tablet, with a size that’s small enough to fit in your pocket yet large enough and brilliant enough to provide you with any and all of your interactive screen-based needs. In addition, this is the first device on the market to feature such a brilliant resolution and brightness with Samsung’s own brand new “HD Super AMOLED” at 1280×800 pixel WXGA resolution, 285ppi that is, on a cool 5.3-inch display – a new level of WOW factor at play in the Galaxy Note for sure.
The people at Sharp have announced a brand new 7-inch Android tablet that will be launched in Japan complete with an NFC interface for commercial interactions. This Android tablet will only support Japanese FeliCa cards at the start, but we can expect additional card support in the near future. This Sharp RW-T107 unit will be able to be used in stores to read membership cards, IDs, loyalty cards, and more - get some coupons to grab some awesome cheap food and such!
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The last time we spoke about the possibility of a device by the name of HTC Ruby, it was an image reflected in a tablet screen - very strange! Since then, we've gotten word that HTC will be releasing several new handsets by the end of 2011 and our sister-site Android Community has seen the HTC Ruby photographed by Mr Blurrycam. Now we've got a whole boatload of details and some additional leaked photos that you're gonna love.
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Several screenshots have been leaked to a set of Android-specific fan sites that appear to show a Samsung Nexus S device hosting the newest still unreleased version of Android, that being Ice Cream Sandwich, a version which is said to tie together the smartphone and the tablet worlds, each of them now running their own versions of Android, Gingerbread for handsets and Honeycomb for tablets. A set of factoids appears to have been delivered with these photos from a source who very well may be delivering a legitimate Beta version of this operating system to the public.
It's time for a strange device, ladies and gentlemen, and we've got just the device for you. This is the Acer Iconia Smart, an Android device running version 2.3.x Gingerbread, having a monstrously long display, and rolling out with a single-core 1GHz Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. This device's 4.8-inch 21:9 aspect ration display is certainly one of its more unique and stand-out features, will the rest of its very possibly out-dated hardware be able to compete with the new wave of devices that's been released since it's original announcement?
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It appears that Samsung will be joining the squad of Android device ready for rough tumbling, water dunking, and the rest. This device appears very much to be running a brand new version of Samsung's TouchWiz interface over Android and certainly will be running Android 2.3.x Gingerbread upon release. This device is next in line right after the recently Tegra 2 confirmed Samsung Galaxy R which we saw NVIDIA give a hands-on treatment to this morning and will be released very soon.
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HTC's promised Android 2.3 Gingerbread update for the original Desire has been released, though it's not the simple OTA upgrade we're now used to. Heavily modified so as to fit the memory confines of the Desire - which had originally prompted HTC to cancel the update, only changing its mind after owner outcry - the Gingerbread ROM has been stripped of several HTC apps, the official Facebook app and even all of the wallpapers beyond the default choice.
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Before you even ask, Binnenkort Leverbaar means COMING SOON in Dutch. And what is coming soon, you might ask? Why, the HTC Ignite, of course! In an email from a source at a European retailer we've been assured that the rumors that the next HTC handset would be the Nexus-branded device to come after the legendary Nexus S and be the hero device for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, are untrue, and that instead HTC would be releasing the phone you see in the screen grab below. Furthermore, similar to what's been occurring with HTC devices for some time now, this device will be released in Europe before the United States.
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It appears that in addition to the HTC Puccini 10-inch tablet having its press images leaked today, there's another AT&T-bound device hanging in the rafters. This handset is a Samsung device by the looks of it, employing a slide-out keyboard, an 8-megapixel camera on the back with a flash and speaker grille, textured battery cover, and by the looks of its model number SGH-I927, may well be a variant of the hottest Android device in the world, the Galaxy S II.
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There's another dual-core device coming, and it's coming from Motorola. One of only a couple of WiMAX 4G compatible dual-cores and certainly the only one with a kick-stand, this device is the newest generation of dual-core Motorola Androids that started with the ATRIX 4G, currently still residing on AT&T exclusively. But I'm sure you knew that, right, they look just the same, right? I say thee nay! Here comes the diamonds, instead!
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It's not often that we speak of Huawei at all, much less on how they're creating a superphone for Android. This device is what's possibly a dual-core but by all evidences a single-core processor*-having superphone running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, upgradable to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and rocking a 4-inch 854x480 pixel resolution display with an 8-megapixel camera on the back. Sound like a phone that's going to run you $400 or more? How does sub-$300 off contract sound to you?
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